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* [[w:Man in the Iron Mask|The mysterious historical figure]], a French prisoner in a velvet mask, believed by some historians to be a man named Eustache Dauger.
* The poem ''[[The Prison (poem)|The Prison]]'' by Alfred de Vigny, an 1821 work purporting to recount events surrounding the death of Man in the Iron Mask.
* ''[[The Vicomte de Bragelonne: Ten Years Later]]'' by Alexandre Dumas, the third book in [[The d'Artagnan Romances]] ([[sequel]] to ''[[The Three Musketeers (novel)|The Three Musketeers]]'' and ''[[Twenty Years After]]''), whose final section is entitled ''The Man in the Iron Mask''.
* [[The Man in the Iron Mask (1939 film)|The 1939 film]].
* [[The Man in the Iron Mask (1977 film)|The 1977 British TV movie]].
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* [[The Man in the Iron Mask (1998 film)|The 1998 film]], which was a loose adaptation of Dumas' novel above.
Writer and philosopher [[Voltaire (philosopher)|Voltaire]] is responsible for [[Adaptation Decay|both the iron mask (instead of the actual velvet) and the conceit that the prisoner was the older, illegitimate brother of Louis XIV]], making those claims in the second edition of his ''Questions sur l'Encyclopédie'' (published in 1771).
These are by no means all the works inspired by the masked man in the Bastille; feel free to add any others.
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